This is a column about saving whiteness. It’s precipitated by an incident last Saturday at a bookstore in Washington.
Seems that author Jonathan M. Metzl was giving a presentation when a group of white nationalists barged in. They formed a phalanx between him and the audience, and one of them harangued the crowd with an electric bullhorn, something about the white working class being asked to "trade their homeland for handouts." The group chanted, "This land is our land." They filed out, to a chorus of boos.
We will pass lightly over the irony of Woody Guthrie's words of harmony and inclusion ("This land is your land, this land is my land.